embodiment of an ideal

His ideas were hopeless; but he remains the embodiment of an ideal.

Indeed, he was the living embodiment of an ideal Brahmo life.

The U.S. isnt just a nation unlike any other, it is the embodiment of an ideal.

Hated by capitalism, persecuted to death, it still lives, the embodiment of an ideal that can only die with its own consummation.

After 1935, the Soviet Union became primarily an issue for American foreign policy rather than the embodiment of an ideal to be emulated.

Gainsborough depicts her less as an individual, though, than as the embodiment of an ideal: sensibility personified.

He was the embodiment of an ideal: that the truly best and the brightest could come to Washington to serve the public at our moment of need.

Ambohimanga has been viewed by many Merina since the late 19th century as the embodiment of an ideal social order blessed by the ancestors.

She is not a specific person but the embodiment of an ideal, in this case an ideal of desirability, in which the sensual and the spiritual merge.

Bernhard admired Gould not only as an artist, but as a thinker, too, and especially as an embodiment of an ideal in terms of the artist's role in society.

This meaning transcends just mere martial arts skill alone, as a Pendekar is also respected by the society that he lives in for his wisdom and knowledge, an embodiment of an ideal concept.

In ancient Greece, Winckelmann saw the embodiment of an ideal: an ideal of visual beauty and, more particularly, of a whole mode of life dominated by visual beauty.

It became the definitive example of the Renaissance portrait and perhaps for this reason is seen not jut as the likeness of a real person, but also as the embodiment of an ideal.

Rickie Ponting, the embodiment of an ideal which places honour and pride above cash and celebrity, believes the new generation of cricketers fail to understand the values represented by the baggy green cap.

The holiest of Orthodox relics are displayed against them: the 12th-century icon of St. George, the curly-headed embodiment of an ideal warrior; the dark Savior of the Fiery Eye; an icon of the Holy Guardian of the Russian State, the Virgin of Vladimir.